Architectural Background
Columbia University
Master of Architecture
MSAAD
2024 - 2025

University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
2018 - 2020

OCC
Associate’s Degree in Architecture
2015 - 2018


Applied Work Columbia University
GSAPP
Associate Faculty
Jan 2026 - May 2026


waste la(nd)b.
Founder, Researcher
Sep 2025 - present


Float Studio
Architectural Design Intern
Jan 2025 - May 2025

Champion Home Builders
Associate Architect
May 2021 - May 2024

 

Project Architect Intern
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019

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Claude Code + Claude Design
AwardsWilliam Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize
Residual Futures: A Fieldwork of Waste in Albania






Last Updated 24.10.31




Matilda Terolli

New York City
Albania          



Matilda Terolli explores the mediums of everyday life through tools and methods of sorting, collecting, and documenting. This website reflects that process through overlapping systems of video, photo, drawing, digital processing and a continuous stream of layered material.


Her recent project(s), show that same method of:

sorting
collecting
documenting




She is currently working on:

waste la(nd)b.   
    web design
DUMPSTR
    app design
Circula
    app design



Plastic Shores

Plastic Shores: a short film, traveling through the island of Tuvalu with her classmates from Columbia University, GSAPP for their final studio semester. 
Matilda had the opportunity to look at Tuvalu from a different lens, through Tuvalu’s waste system: traveling with the waste management team, crossing a burning landfill, going to islands, etc). This film brings everything to the surface that doesn’t want to be seen. 

Plastic Shores: A Collection of Waste In Tuvalu





Last year:
From the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, she worked on collecting waste artifacts in Albania: 


Residual Futures

A Fieldwork of Waste in Albania explores how waste functions as both environmental crisis and cultural archive, using methods such as film, photography, drawing, drone footage, material tracing and thermal imaging to capture fragments from each individual device (image, video, cameras, scanning). 











portfolio(s) object(s) work(s) archive(s)

Matilda Terolli — Grid


waste la(nd)b.


This is where I try to understand waste.

We live with waste, but rarely know where it comes from or where it will go.

I go to oceans, shorelines,rivers and landfills around the world where it collects - following how it moves, where it settles, and how it’s handled or left behind.

I’m interested in the layers that sit underneath what we usually ignore.

Oceans
[Tuvalu]
Shorelines
[Albania]
Rivers
[Albania]
Landfills
[Tuvalu]







I started this work by paying attention to what we throw away.

Not as a problem to fix, but as something that holds information about how we live, what we value, and what we choose to ignore.

I’m interested in where things go after they leave us, how long they stay, and what they become over time.




DUMPSTR.
We finish a coffee.

Toss the cup.
Open a package.
Break down the box. 

Make pasta.

Throw away the glass jar.


Every day, without thinking.

DUMPSTR is for the moment just before you throw something away, the two seconds where you could ask: does this have to end here?

Photograph it. Log it. Find out what it could still become - a local drop-off, a reuse idea, someone nearby who needs exactly that material.

Not a recycling app. Not a guilt trip. A pause before the landfill.

For anyone living in a city full of things being thrown away.


In development · 2026




Circula.


Circula keeps things in circulation.
You hold an item, care for it, and pass it on.
Nothing ends. Everything moves.


In development · 2026





















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